Annie Lennox Quotes

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Thanks

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
  • Step

• Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Silence

• I will know him by his eyes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Know
  • Eyes
  • Will

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Life
  • Men
  • Strong

• I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

  

  Mary Garden
  • Up

• Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Job
  • Rest

• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  

  David Boaz
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Poverty

• I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Children
  • Beautiful